Week 8 summary

This weeks lecture i must admit was a bit all over the place, it was not hard to understand that the lecturer was highly educated, and new what he was talking about. The topic was "Virtual philosophy" . I would try to explain the term Virtual Philosophy as what we 'think' is real is not real. the next thing Daniel, the lecturer talked about was Descartes and Cartesian Dualism, which for me actually rings a bell, since i am studying Psychology and Descartes being one having a big impact on that field.The french man, Rene Descartes proposed that humans have physical body, and also their soul, with the body being purely mechanistic and the soul being responsible for emotions. I think the lecture notes, covered a lot more than he did in the 50 minutes, the lecture notes states states something like this: "In this space, however, it is the cyber body (not the mind) which is immortal, while the human body (the animating soul outside the cyber body) is mortal. This is a direct reversal of current understandings wherein the body is mortal while the soul is immortal." What that exactly means in another thing :P